BRUCE BARTLETT: Jeff Nesbit’s Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP and Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

JACOB SILVERMAN: Tom Vanderbilt’s You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice

THOMAS J. SUGRUE: Mitchell Duneier’s Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

CRISTINA NEHRING: Jules Howard’s Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality, Katie Roiphe’s The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End, Oliver Sacks’s Gratitude, Michael Kinsley’s Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide, and Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air